George B@gbargoud@masto.nyc
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Hashtags work a lot better on a big server than on a small one though.
For a post with a hashtag to make it to your feed, it has to make it to your instance first. This usually means either someone on your instance follows either the poster or someone who boosted the post.
That's why I also recommend following fedigroups which will push any posts the group is tagged in to your instance whether it would have made it there or not.
https://about.fedigroups.social/directory
Space Catitude 🚀
@TerryHancock@realsocial.life
@gbargoud@masto.nyc @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Yes, this is something I noticed when investigating my followers list -- if I don't follow them back and there's no one on my instance who does, either, then they start showing up as "inactive" -- even though clicking through, it's clear that they are still very active.
My instance no longer has any reason to retrieve their posts, see?
So I don't see them.
Same thing with hashtags, I think.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. I guess I could follow a lot more people. But if I do, I'll probably have to make more use of lists to curate my home feed.
Federation does not always do what I think it does. 🤷♂️
